Jacques Bertillon
Adolphe-Louis Jacques Bertillon (born November 11, 1851 in Paris , † July 7, 1922 in Valmondois ) was a French statistician and demographer .
He is the son of the doctor, scientist and statistician Louis-Adolphe Bertillon and the older brother of the criminologist and then head of the identification office in Paris Alphonse Bertillon .
As a trained doctor, he turned to statistics in 1870 and followed his father in the statistical description of the population of France .
One of the first systematic lists of causes of death ( Bertillon classification , 1893) goes back to Bertillon , from which the ICD published by the WHO later developed.
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Jacques Bertillon. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
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| SURNAME | Bertillon, Jacques |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bertillon, Adolphe-Louis Jacques (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French statistician and demographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1922 |
| Place of death | Valmondois |